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Mark 12:1

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he began: Mark 4:2, Mark 4:11-13, Mark 4:33-34; Ezekiel 20:49; Matthew 13:10-15, Matthew 13:34-35, Matthew 21:28-33, Matthew 22:1-14; Luke 8:10, Luke 22:9

A certain: Matthew 21:33-40; Luke 20:9-15

planted: Psalms 80:8-16; Isaiah 5:1-4; Jeremiah 2:21; Luke 13:6-9; John 15:1-8; Romans 11:17-24

and set: Nehemiah 9:13-14; Psalms 78:68-69, Psalms 147:19-20; Ezekiel 20:11-12, Ezekiel 20:18-20; Acts 7:38, Acts 7:46-47; Romans 3:1-2, Romans 9:4-5

and let: Song of Solomon 8:11-12; Isaiah 7:23

and went: Mark 13:34; Matthew 25:14; Luke 15:13, Luke 19:12

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